Monument record MDO3625 - Field systems west of Bryanston Farm, Bryanston

Parallel banked field boundaries or lynchets are visible as low earthworks and cropmarks on lidar imagery and aerial photographs in fields to the west of Bryanston. They are considered to be the remains of a medieval field system which perhaps reused parts of the adjacent prehistoric field system described in MDO3629.

Parallel banked field boundaries or lynchets are visible as low earthworks and cropmarks on lidar imagery and aerial photographs [2-3] in fields to the west of Bryanston. They cover an area of approximately 23 hectares and are considered to be the remains of a medieval field system which perhaps reused parts of the adjacent prehistoric field system described in MDO3629.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 48 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(9) CULTIVATION REMAINS. Nothing is known of the open fields system of the parish or of the date of their enclosure. On the S. side of a dry valley, W. of Bryanston Farm (866068-869068), are three contour strip lynchets up to 500 yds. Long. The very uneven nature of the rises suggests that the strip lynchets were formed by ploughing over earlier 'Celtic' fields; the latter continue, largely undamaged, immediately to the W. (Group 60), p.341).'

<2> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<3> 05-SEP-1995, NMR 15404/13 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18858.

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